March 16, 2014

House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, R-Va., is scheduled to hold a high-dollar fundraiser in Silicon Valley next week — but frustrated tech donors are already grumbling about the event, disappointed by the lack of progress from House Republicans on one of their top policy priorities: immigration legislation.

According to an invitation obtained by CQ Roll Call, the Goodlatte fundraiser is organized by TechNet, which bills itself as the “preeminent bipartisan political network of CEOs and Seniors Executives that promotes the growth of technology-led innovation.” Suggested contribution levels for Wednesday’s round table and reception with the powerful chairman range between $10,000 and $40,000 for the Goodlatte Victory Committee.

Looks like Goodlatte has become Boehner's poster boy to support amnesty for illegal alien.

All those rich techies in California must be hurting for domestic help to change their sheets, rake their leaves, and clean their pools. Screw them. let them pay a living wage for their domestic staff. Or change their own damned sheets.

Agreed. When Silicon Valley talks "immigration reform," they mean taking the cap off H- visas, so they can import a near infinite number of Indian, Iranian, Chinese or other developing world engineers and coders, to work at wages comparable to what McDonalds pays a worker who hasn't flaked out after six months of work, for 12+ hours daily work. This situation is not called the H1-B Ghetto for nothing. It's not that they're lacking talent - superior US talent in fact - it's that they don't want to pay market wages and want to tilt the market by importing cheap foreign labor.

It's pretty much the same reason the Chamber of Commerce supports open borders, except the Chamber is more interested in importing cheap unskilled labor for the same purpose.

The thing about the leftist critique of power and money, is that sometimes they are not entirely wrong. As a class, our elite does look like it's out to exploit and oppress the rest of us.

The Silicon Valley CEO's are only interested in being able to hire cheap foreign labor, and then keep them tied to their own companys as feudal serfs. There is no shortage of technical ability in the US, just ability willing to work for minimum wages.

Some time after election day but before Christmas, during the lame duck session, in the middle of the night, Boehner breaks the Hastert Rule, calls for a vote on the Senate Gang Bangers of Eight bill as written without changes, and it would easily pass based on virtually all Democrats and just a handful of Republicans.

With the farmers in the Central Valley not getting the water they're entitled to, there's not much demand for migrant labor right now.I suppose all those "migrants" will have to set their sights on being "chicken pluckers" for Tyson and ConAgra.

This is about Goodlatte being in bed with the Big Tech Lobby over the "Innovation Act" (aka the Goodlatte Bill). The bill passed in December 2013 after the Big Tech Lobby created a big hubub over Patent Trolls...they basically used some bad apples to demonize all inventors and then stacked the law in their favor against the little guy. Rep. Goolatte is simply parading in triumph.

Yeah, so the solution remains those seeking to be major advocates for healthy immigration enforcement, must support politicians to avoid them understandably going to the other side to be influenced. They must put the money and influence where their mouths are - as this is the way US politics has been run forever. Politicians will always listen and be swayed by those who support their public careers. Stay competitive with those who have your interests.

But electing Democrats will only ensure the exact opposite, every time.

Looks like Goodlatte has become Boehner's poster boy to support amnesty for illegal alien.

All those rich techies in California must be hurting for domestic help to change their sheets, rake their leaves, and clean their pools. Screw them. let them pay a living wage for their domestic staff. Or change their own damned sheets.

It's not about domestic help. It's about getting more H1b visas for technical workers and programmers.

H1b visas are linked to the particular employer, so if you lose your job, you lose your permission to be in the country. This makes H1b employees rather... biddable... in terms of salaries and working conditions. The H1b program was originally intended to let employers bring in unique technical talent, but it's been greatly expanded and used instead to bring in low-end programmers for years now. It's a major reason that applied technical fields, and particularly programming, are no longer good careers for Americans.

The Silicon Valley CEO's are only interested in being able to hire cheap foreign labor, and then keep them tied to their own companys as feudal serfs. There is no shortage of technical ability in the US, just ability willing to work for minimum wages.

Agreed. When Silicon Valley talks "immigration reform," they mean taking the cap off H- visas, so they can import a near infinite number of Indian, Iranian, Chinese or other developing world engineers and coders, to work at wages comparable to what McDonalds pays a worker who hasn't flaked out after six months of work, for 12+ hours daily work. This situation is not called the H1-B Ghetto for nothing. It's not that they're lacking talent - superior US talent in fact - it's that they don't want to pay market wages and want to tilt the market by importing cheap foreign labor.

It's pretty much the same reason the Chamber of Commerce supports open borders, except the Chamber is more interested in importing cheap unskilled labor for the same purpose.

The thing about the leftist critique of power and money, is that sometimes they are not entirely wrong. As a class, our elite does look like it's out to exploit and oppress the rest of us.

That has been the problem with immigration "reform", as currently designed for quite some time now. The best and the brightest are covered with more H1-B visas, while the uneducated get a path to citizenship. Why not reverse that, and give those with advanced STEM degrees the path to citizenship, and those without high school educations get guest visas? The answer is, of course, political, with Silicon Valley backing the legislation because of the H1-Bs, and the Dems backing it for all of the uneducated potential Dem voters getting a path to citizenship.

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